Why do "fitness" people HATE running so much?

Surprise Surprise! wrote:

Why are you even on the Forum? It is LetsRun, not lets be a "insecure DB in BB shorts and a sleeveless UA shirt with tats judging everyone else.

Running can be a lifelong activity as weight training, but throwing up kettle balls and jerking of heavy rope is just a fad!

Let me guess, you never could do anything well in school? So this is your sport?

Yes I would like to have a build like Galan Rupp!

Go to your own site, quit CREAPIN on this one.

I've been here for 10 years and I like to keep up with the sport. Why would I leave now? Because you don't approve of my preferred form of exercise?

WHY ARE YOU ON THIS SITE? I think deap down you have a crush on Galan and you actually wish you could be a distance runner, but you spent too much time in the weight room now your 5 foot tall and 5 foot wide!

Go to your own site!! You will never change our views. We have heard your insecure crap since HS and we are still running and you are only watching Football.

Without a sport to compete in at the end most people get bored after a while just going down to the gym

Look - there's no single standard def. for fitness because fitness is fitness FOR something. It depends on the sport you do. Trying to decide what's best for "overall fitness" is ridiculous, akin to trying to judge what's the best tool: wrench, hammer, screwdriver (or cross-fit enthusiast). Being in shape for a marathon is diff. than being in shape for a 5k, just as its diff. than being in shape for football or baseball or basketball (to quote kenny powers, a "real sport").

What these cross-fit best-at-excercising types forget is that fitness has a purpose...whatever sport you do, that's the fitness you need.

Distance running is as valid a form of exercise as sprinting, resistance training, etc they each have their place is a balanced type of fitness. There are at least as many peer-reviewed studies that tie endurance training to heart health and reduced risk of various diseases such as diabetes and alzheimers as there are for muscle-building exercises. Strength training is good, running is good, diet and nutrition are good. Suggesting that only one type of exercise or approach to fitness is worthwhile is retarded. Humans evolved in an environment that rewards them for being good runners, fighters, and fornicators. If you can't do all three well, then you ain't fit.

I suspect as you age, the importance of cardio increases. Once my peers started having heart attacks, it made me rethink the importance of good cardiovascular health.

I wonder if any studies have been done which compare incidences of heart attack / stroke between different exercise regimens.

Four pages of replies and a single mention of the two most most important findings regarding exercise & fitness.

Clues - neuron genesis in the hippocampus - increased telemere lifespan.

Now do some research as to what this means and what type of exersize leads to these outcomes.

The knuckleheads in this country who have no athletic ability and no work ethic will continue to sit around on a couch most of their lives watching the NBA and NFL and darkening the door of a gym once in a great while. At the same time, real athletes will be competitive in actual races/games/triathlons etc... Most idiots I see in the gym are not interested in cardio or running because it requires hard work to be good at it. Any idiot, including me can go so on a piece of weigh equipment and pump out reps...BFD?!

BFD???? wrote:

Most idiots I see in the gym are not interested in cardio or running because it requires hard work to be good at it. Any idiot, including me can go so on a piece of weigh equipment and pump out reps...BFD?!

The reason strength training enthusiasts aren't interested in running is not that they don't want to work hard- it's that they insist on working smart. They are members of an intelligent species called homo sapiens who have learned to fashion tools called barbells that can be used to stimulate better results in less time than their primitive ancestors, the joggers are able to achieve by plodding along the savannah all day.

how can no one say that running is bad for your joints? Seriously. I can assure you 100mi/week on roads/sidewalks/anything other than dirt is terrible for your body. I've just accepted Ill have pins through my knees in 10yrs. Hopefully biomech technology is better by then.

Keep telling yourself that you lazy piece of shit. How about you give running a try before posting drivel like that. (and by running I dont mean jogging 1 mile on the treadmille 1x per week).

Coffee Drinker wrote:

barbells that can be used to stimulate better results in less time

WRONG.Depends on the person.

table wrote:

how can no one say that running is bad for your joints? Seriously. I can assure you 100mi/week on roads/sidewalks/anything other than dirt is terrible for your body.

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Useless? Vanity?

Having a good-looking upper body is not a bad thing to want. Good-looking people get more opportunities (financial, romantic, social) than fat or skinny people. Strong muscles (lower and upper body) are much more beneficial and useful than being able to run 10 miles.[/quote]

Obviously, you haven't seen Zombieland.

come on wrote:

Useless? Vanity?

Having a good-looking upper body is not a bad thing to want. Good-looking people get more opportunities (financial, romantic, social) than fat or skinny people. Strong muscles (lower and upper body) are much more beneficial and useful than being able to run 10 miles.[/quote]

Obviously, you haven't seen Zombieland.[/quote]

Best post I've seen so far in this thread.

I've had the experience of having close ties to the fitness world (I am proud to say I'm not a part of it; those people are shallow idiots for the most part) and I can say with confidence that there is no bias against running. Anyone who is serious about fitness is big into cardio as a main measure of how to lose weight. Weightlifting and strength training has been proven to alter blood chemistry in a favorable way to speed up metabolism and help weight loss. That being said, a lot of the time running is seen too much as an injury risk rather than addressing the things that actually cause injuries.

It's also kind of stupid to vent that people who are in the business of making people look good are being shallow. Of course they view it as cardio, dumbass! It's their job! That's like being pissed that McDonalds doesn't make gourmet food.

nerp wrote:

Coffee Drinker wrote:

The essence of the exercise benefit is muscular strengthening and metabolic conditioning.

Sound the alarms, we have a stage three crossfitter.

You know how people say "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"? Metabolic conditioning (MetCon, to crossfitters) is a prime example of that. Running is a prime example of metabolic conditioning, its just not the kind you've been taught to strive for.

Taken from the crossfit forums, a MetCon workout is:

1. High Heart Rate

2. Simultaneous Use of Many Muscles

3. Continuous Movement

4. Short to Medium Time (5-30 min)

Sounds like a tempo run, if you ask me.

Try doing a MetCon workout I guarantee that it's 10x easier than a tempo run. After being injured and attempting cross training to stay fit, I realized all other workouts are rubbish compared to running. If you think other forms of exercise are as good as running you haven't done much running.

I played Lacrosse practicing at least 4 days a week, in practice we would do wind sprints, push ups, sit ups, strength training, stairs etc. I quit for 1 year and ran middle distance and when I went back to Lacrosse I was 10x faster and in 40X better shape than everyone. I didn't notice a difference in strength, but I'm blessed with natural strength. Before ever lifting weights at age 16 I could bench press 100lbs multiple times without significant effort. So maybe running would have some effect on most peoples strength but I didn't notice.

Long Story Short: Running gets you in better shape than any other sport/training hands down. If you don't agree that you have obviously never tried running.

I just love how the muscle heads in my gym do "sprints" on the treadmills in front of me at 8.5 mph and they're pushing all out, making a big show of it, taking breaks every minute or so. Meanwhile, I'm steadily, clicking off miles at 9.5 mph w/o rest or stopping and in a completely controlled form for several miles....makes me laugh every time.

I just love how the muscle heads in my gym do "sprints" on the treadmills in front of me at 8.5 mph and they're pushing all out, making a big show of it, taking breaks every minute or so. Meanwhile, I'm steadily, clicking off miles at 9.5 mph w/o rest or stopping and in a completely controlled form for several miles....makes me laugh every time.

because theyre pussys